[Gllug] Netware data recovery

[Mike Brodbelt]

On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 17:24 +0100, Chris Bell wrote:
> On Fri 08 Apr, Chris Bell wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Thanks for any suggestions.
> > 
>    I will probably have another try tomorrow. A friend has been trying today
> without success so far, but had to go out.

The typical setup for Netware 3.12 was a small DOS partition, and the
rest of the disk dedicated to the Netware partition. The Netware
partition could be optionally sub-divided further into "volumes". The
machine would boot from the DOS partition, which would run server.exe,
which started up the Netware OS. Dos was used effectively only as a boot
loader.

The fact you can get to the DOS partition is good, as the disk can't be
completely hosed. The downside is there's not much around that'll read a
Netware partition directly - most netware compatible software is based
around understanding the Novell network protocols, not the on-disk
format. You could try:-

http://www.softwareeshop.com/utilities/Captain_Nemo_300.htm

There are also some potentially useful links here:-

http://www.netwarefiles.com/volume.htm

Your other option is to find a Netware server and plug the disk into it
- ISTR that you could mount volumes from other disk on your server
fairly simply, but it's been years since I've looked at Netware in any
serious way.

Mike.

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